Loop for looivl picker-staffs



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F. X. COTE 8a 0. T. OHARLAND.

LOOP FOR LOOM PIGKEB STAPFS.

No. 389,060. Patented Sept; 4, 1888.

WITNESSES. IN V'EJVTORS:

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FRANK X. COTE AND CHARLES T. CHAR-LAND, OF BIDDEFORD, MAINE.

LOOP FOR LOOM PlCKER-STAFFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,060, dated September 4, 1888.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK X. COTE and CHARLES T. CHARLAND, citizens of the United States, residing at Biddeford, in the county of York and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loopsfor Loom Picker-Staffs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a portion of a pickerstaff of a loom; Fig. 2, a detail perspective view of our improved loop, and Fig. 3 a sectional elevation of the same.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the picker staff or stick, and B the picker thereof, both of these parts being of the usual wellknown construction.

O designates the loop or collar employed to bind the picker to its stick.

It has always been a great desideratum to discover some material of which to construct this loop (3 whereby the same will be enabled to withstand the constant strain and jar to which it is subjected by reason of the rapid vibration of the picker-start and impact of the picker against the shuttle. Loops have heretofore been constructed of different metals in various forms, of leather, and of rawhide; but it has been found in actual practice that none of these materials will stand the constant friction and jar, the loops soon becoming too worn and loose to be of any practical service whatever.

It is therefore the special object of this invention to provide a loop or collar that will be extremely hard and durable, so as to resist for a long time the continuous friction and strain brought to bear upon it, and which at the same time will be inexpensive and possess the desirable qualities of lightness, inelastic ity, and toughness to an eminent degree, as will fully hereinafter appear.

The invention consists in a loop molded or formed from a compound known to the trade as leatheroid or artificial leather. The preferred and usual method of making the loops is to press the compound while in a plastic or semi-fluid state into molds or dies to give the loops the required shape or con figuration, after which they are allowed to harden and set in the usual manner, when they are ready for use.

Loops manufactured from this material (which usually consists, essentially, of a compound formed of very finelyground or comrninuted leather and a binder-such as glue, resin, &o.) have been found to possess in actual practice all the hereinbefore mentioned desirable qualities and properties. They are sufficiently tough and inelastic to endure for a comparatively great length of time,and they do not wear away and become useless as those heretofore employed for the purpose.-

It is also obvious that loops made from this material will be very cheap and light.

Having thus described our invention, what we claiin,and desire to secure by Letters Patout, is-

As a new article of n'ianufacture, a jointless loop for loom picker-staffs, consisting of leatheroid, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we afiix chi-signatures in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK X. COTE. CHARLES T. CHARLAND.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. W. HARRIMAN, Josnrrr H. Core. 

